The challenge of ventilator-associated pneumonia diagnosis in COVID-19 patients

Affiliations

¹ Intensive Care Unit and Inserm CIC1435 & UMR1092, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges, France. b.francois@unilim.fr.
² Intensive Care Unit, St Luc University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpétrière, APHP-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

Editorial

Bruno François et al. Crit Care. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 5;24(1):289.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03013-2.

¹ Intensive Care Unit and Inserm CIC1435 & UMR1092, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges, France. b.francois@unilim.fr.
² Intensive Care Unit, St Luc University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpétrière, APHP-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

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